Jozef Zajac

Jozef Zajac (14 March 1891-12 December 1963) was Commander of Air Defense of Poland from 1937 to 1939.

Biography
Jozef Zajac was born on 14 March 1891 in Rzeszow, and during World War I he served in Jozef Haller's Polish Blue Army with France against the German Empire. During the closing stages of the Polish-Soviet War he led the Polish 3rd Army, and in 1936 he assumed command of the Krakow Military District. A year later, Zajac became commander of the Polish Air Force, which was annihilated on the ground by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe during the Invasion of Poland. Zajac fled to France and then England, and from 1943 to 1946 he served as deputy commander of the Polish government-in-exile's army. He died in 1963 in Ottawa, Canada, still in exile.